IBM Industry Frameworks

IBM Retail Industry Framework

These are the products you will use for integrating your IBM Retail Industry Framework solution. The resource links provided can help you better understand the key and elective integration components for your chosen domain.

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Retail industry domains

To qualify for framework validation, your solution must integrate at least two or more components listed within one of these domains, and at least one of the components must be a key integration component.

Business and finance administration

This domain involves providing tools and dashboards to manage the analytics surrounding retail financial planning, metrics, and consolidations as well as key performance indicators for improved human capital.

This domain involves giving retailers the ability to create a single, consistent view of the customer, enabling more targeted marketing and outstanding service regardless of the channel the client has chosen to use.

This domain involves enabling retailers to optimize their existing supply chain systems with solutions for determining strategic network design and inventory positioning. Retailers can also weigh the costs or benefits to sustainability initiatives. Vendor and trade fund management can be streamlined with IBM solutions in this domain.